Christian Curnyn was born in Glasgow and studied harpsichord at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is music director of the Early Opera Company, conducting many high-profile performances including its debut at the 2010 BBC Proms.
Previously for ENO: Rodelinda, Charpentier’s Medea, Julius Caesar, Castor and Pollux, Partenope, After Dido (Young Vic).
 

Career Highlights
Notable engagements elsewhere: Die Zauberflöte (Garsington Opera and Opéra National du Rhin debuts); returns to Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt and ROH (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), Ariodante (Salzburg); Platée, Alcina, The Fairy Queen (Staatstheater Stuttgart); Ezio (Oper Frankfurt); Così fan tutte (New York City Opera); Partenope (Opera Australia, New York City Opera); The Beggar’s Opera (ROH); L’Ormindo (ROH Wanamaker Playhouse); Giasone (Chicago Opera Theater); Castor et Pollux (Komische Oper Berlin); Semele (Scottish Opera); Saul (Opera North); Tolomeo (Glimmerglass); concerts with Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, English Concert, Stavanger, Ulster and Hallé Orchestras, and at Handel Festivals in Karlsruhe and Hallé.
 

Recordings: Serse, Alceste, Flavio, Partenope, Semele, Eccles’s The Judgment of Paris, Britten’s realisation of The Beggar’s Opera (Chandos); Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo (Wigmore Live); ‘Italia’ (Nicola Benedetti, SCO, Decca).

Last updated: 27th December 2023